WASHINGTON — President Bush, intervening in the political crisis in Pakistan, told President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday that he must hold parliamentary elections soon and step down as army leader.

“You can’t be the president and the head of the military at the same time,” Bush said, describing their 20-minute phone call. “I had a very frank discussion with him.”

It was Bush’s first contact with Musharraf since he declared emergency rule Saturday and granted sweeping powers to authorities to crush political dissent.

At the Pentagon, Lt. Gen. Carter Ham, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said cooperation along the border is crucial to U.S. war efforts but that communication and cooperation with the Pakistani military along the Afghan border have not been affected by the crisis. More than half of U.S. supplies to forces in Afghanistan go through Pakistan.

The 7,800-acre Winter Valley Fire in Moffat County was 100 percent contained Tuesday as visible smoke from interior islands showed minimal creeping behavior, according to the Bureau of Land Management.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Tuesday that he respects the decision of Denver Broncos players on Sunday to protest President Donald Trump and that the president’s NFL criticism was a bid to “distract the country” from his policy failures.